Technical workshop with Software Center projects

In Software Center, companies and universities work together to accelerate the adoption of novel approaches to software engineering. This one-day technical workshop aims at sharing and discussing results from joint projects within Software Center. This event is for Software Center partners only.

Registration:

Please register at this link: https://forms.gle/HuqJJmjojqJszepc7

Choose your workshop track:

To be able to plan for the day we ask you to indicate which track you plan to attend, please choose you track for the workshop at this link:  https://forms.gle/sgJKm2A5J5UWmtw58

The tracks:

1. Automation of Regulatory Compliance
2. Digital twins
3. Assurance & regulatory compliance, architecture and testing
4. Engineering Generative AI Software

Late registrations?

If you want to bring a colleague there is still room for more participants, registration here: https://forms.gle/HuqJJmjojqJszepc7

Date & time:   December 12, 13:00 – 17:00
Place:              SVEA, Forskningsgången 4, 417 56 Göteborg
Agenda:          https://www.software-center.se/event/technical-ws/

Agenda:

12.30 – 13.00: Registration and coffee

13.00 – 13.15: Introduction: Jan Bosch (Room: SVEA 241)

13.15 – 14.45: Parallell workshop sessions:

Track 1: Automation of Regulatory Compliance (Room: SVEA 241)

The question we ask is: ‘What if you could have a “Regulatory Agent” and use artificial intelligence (AI) to help you satisfy regulatory compliance’? Such an agent could continuously track and monitor the system and help ensure that no inconsistencies are introduced.

To address this, and to explore effective ways to work with regulatory compliance, this session focuses on automation of tasks and processes necessary for regulatory compliance. What we seek to achieve is ways in which we can remove the human efforts that goes into these processes.

Agenda:

13:15 – 13:30: Welcome and introduction to the session (Jan and Helena)

13:30 – 13:50: How automation and CRA can work together
Presenter: Christian Nord, Senior Engineering Manager, Advenica

13:50 – 14:10: Do legal and engineering mix? – Using tools in the context of regulatory compliance: challenges and opportunities
Presenter: Liina Savolainen, EE Roadmap Leader at GTT (AB Volvo)

14:10 – 14:30: Automating Extraction of Information for a Compliance Argument based on the Textual Requirements System (TReqS)
Presenter: Eric Knauss (University of Gothenburg)

14:30 – 14:45: Master student presentation/pitch to Software Center companies

14:45 – 15:15 Coffee break

15:15 – 16:30: Discussion

15:15 – 16:10: Discussion

• Identification of key themes
• Breakout groups assigned to themes
• Report out

16:10 – 16:30: Reflections and closing

• Summary of key learnings
• Agreement on next steps
• Feedback (one thing you liked/wished for)
• Closing

Background:
In recent discussions with representatives from the Software Center companies, many people have brought up the many new regulations that will, and are already, affecting the companies. As only a few examples, there is the Cybersecurity Act, GDPR, the Data Act, the AI Act and the Product Liability Act.

In a workshop earlier this sprint, we explored some of these new regulations and the challenges associated with how to strategically prepare for these and how to organize for complying with these. In these discussions, it became clear that currently, many companies are spending an enormous amount of resources and manual effort into the process of understanding, preparing, and organizing for regulatory compliance. The risk, as we see it, is that resources and efforts are spent on processes and tasks that will only increase in number and that, over time, R&D and innovation activities might suffer.

Session format:
The session is interactive in nature with a mix of presentations from research and industry, and with group discussions/exercises.

Session organizers: Helena Holmström Olsson and Jan Bosch

Track 2: Digital twins (Room: SVEA 240)

Background:
In recent discussions with representatives from the Software Center companies, several companies have indicated interest in more in-depth discussions and research-activities regarding digital twins.

Session focus:
The session will focus on identifying existing and missing technologies and competences that are needed to better utilize the concepts and ideas behind the digital-twin paradigm. We will look at questions like “How are different actors working with digital twins today?”, “How would we like to work with digital twins in the future?”, “What are the challenges you see to pursue such approach to system operation?”, “What are the technology gaps that need to be filled?”

Session format:
The session is interactive in nature with a mix of presentations from research and industry, and with group discussions.

Session goals:
Our goal is to identify how the Software Centre community could support advances in utilizing digital-twin technology at the partner companies. This could include need for Software Center research-project and/or other supporting activities such as seminars or development of courses.

Session organizers: Mikael Sjödin and Tiberiu Seceleanu

Track 3: Assurance & regulatory compliance, architecture and testing (Room: SVEA 228)

Chairs: Jan Carlson, Mälardalen University, Daniel Varro, Linköping university

Tentative link for online participation: Join the meeting
MS Teams Meeting ID: 342 545 598 082 Passcode: ck6qz6Ve

13.15 – 14.00 Assurance & regulatory compliance

• Ontology-based representation for assurance and compliance (projects #49 & #50): Barbara Gallina
• Towards Automated Multi-concern Assurance and Regulatory Compliance of Battery Management Systems (projects #49, #50 & #60): Barbara Gallina

14.00 – 14.45 Architecture

• Communication and documentation of architectural changes (project #35): Ifrah Qaisar
• Adopting the C4 model for visualizing software architecture (project #35): Robbert Jongeling

14.45 – 15.15 Coffee break

15.15 – 16.30 Testing

• Use of Generative AI in test generation, optimization, and automation (project #63): Gregory Gay and Azeem Ahmad

Track 4: Engineering Generative AI Software – project presentations (Room: SVEA 215)

Chair: Miroslaw Staron, University of Gothenburg and Chalmers University of Technology

Link to online participation: Join the meeting now

MS Teams Meeting ID: 372 030 783 546   Passcode: JM3mJ3BA

Session format: Project presentations and discussions

• 13.15 – 13.45: Wilhelm Meding/Miroslaw Staron – requirements from standards
• 13.45 – 14.05: Simin Sun – preliminary survey on CI
• 14.05 – 14.25: Yi Peng – Data Challenges for Machine Learning Systems — Towards Data Requirements
• 14.25 – 14.45: Habib – Maintainability Definition and Measurement for ML System Components.
  Coffee break
• 15.15 – 15.35: Nataliya Berbyuk Lindström – Stakeholder Information Needs
• 15.35 – 15.55: Nataliya Berbyuk Lindström – Generative AI
• 15.55 – 16:15: Srijita Basu – Automotive CWE analysis
• 16.15 – 16.30: Yiran Wang, Willem Meijer – Why ML code crashes and what we are going to do about it

14.45 – 15.15: Coffee & mingle

15.15 – 16.30: Parallell workshop sessions (continued)

16.30: Reflections in plenary: theme leaders

16.50 – 17.00: Summary and closing: Jan Bosch

December 11th: Post technical workshop & Pre-reporting workshop mingle

We meet for an informal warming up for the reporting workshop (at own cost):
18.00 at OGBG Bar & Restaurang, Comfort Hotel, Skeppsbroplatsen 1411 21 Göteborg

December 12th: Software center reporting workshop

The day after the technical workshop we are arranging the December Software Center reporting workshop where you have the opportunity to meet partners in Software Center, more information here: https://www.software-center.se/event/rws_dec2024/